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• THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC 1939-1945

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  British Forces: HMS CLARE, a destroyer built in 1918, loaned to Britain in September 1940 and converted for long range escort work.

• THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945: NAVAL BATTLES

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Davies F A (Lt)

  Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser on the quarterdeck of HMS DUKE OF YORK with the commanding officers of some of the ships which had participated in the Battle of the North Cape (26 December 1943), the last action between capital ships during the Second World...

• THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945: GREAT BRITAIN: PERSONALITIES

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, Commander in Chief of the Royal Navy Home Fleet May 1943 to June 1944. In 1944 he became Commander in Chief of the British Pacific Fleet. Photograph taken on board HMS DUKE OF YORK at Guam.

• WEST INDIANS IN BRITAIN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Hampton J A (Lt)

  Men from British Honduras, who have volunteered for service in British forestry units, pictured after arriving by ship at Greenock, Scotland.

• ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Ships in which Mountbatten served: HMS KELLY a K class destroyer built in 1938 by Hawthorne Leslie. HMS KELLY was sunk by German aircraft off Crete on 23 May 1941.

• ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET EARL MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  Ships in which Mountbatten served: HMS GLASGOW a Southampton class cruiser built in 1938 by Scotts. HMS GLASGOW was Mountbatten's flagship as Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean Fleet. Photograph taken in June 1953 as the ship was leaving Grand Harbour,...

• MASCOTS IN THE ROYAL NAVY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

  "Venus" the bulldog mascot of the destroyer HMS VANSITTART.

• EXERCISE STRONG EXPRESS. 14 TO 18 SEPTEMBER 1972, ON BOARD HMS ARK ROYAL. THE LARGE LAND, SEA AND AIR EXERCISE, WHICH INVOLVED 64,000 MEN, 300 SHIPS AND 700 AIRCRAFT AND WAS CONDUCTED JOINTLY BY THREE MAJOR NATO MILITARY COMMANDERS, AND TOOK PLACE IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  A Russian Badger Aircraft overflying the Royal Navy Command Ship HMS ALBION. Picture taken from a Phantom Aircraft of 892 Naval Air Squadron form HMS ARK ROYAL.

• EXERCISE STRONG EXPRESS. 14 TO 18 SEPTEMBER 1972, ON BOARD HMS ARK ROYAL. THE LARGE LAND, SEA AND AIR EXERCISE, WHICH INVOLVED 64,000 MEN, 300 SHIPS AND 700 AIRCRAFT AND WAS CONDUCTED JOINTLY BY THREE MAJOR NATO MILITARY COMMANDERS, AND TOOK PLACE IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  A Royal Navy Phantom is launched from HMS ARK ROYAL during the exercise. In the background is a Russian Kashin class destroyer.

• DISABLED RUSSIAN SUBMARINE IN THE NORTH SEA. MARCH 1972, AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH FROM A NIMROD MARITIME RECONNAISSANCE JET OF 201 SQUADRON, RAF KINLOSS, MORAYSHIRE.

  part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The disabled Russian H class nuclear submarine with a Russian Tug in attendance.